- Nursing planning
- Overall Goals
- Modify eating patterns
- Participate in a regular physical activity program
- Achieve and maintain weight loss to a specified level
- Minimize or prevent health problems
- Overall Goals
- Nursing implementation
- Obesity is one of most challenging health problems
- Successful weight management can be both difficult and lifelong
- Treatment begins with patients understanding their weight history and deciding on a plan that is best for them
- An “ideal” BMI is not necessary and may not be realistic
- Modest weight loss of 3% to 5% can have clinical benefits
- Greater weight loss produces greater benefits
- Average weight loss programs result in a 10% reduction of body weight
- Explore motivation – it is key
- Supervised plan of care should be directed toward
- Successful weight loss
- Requires a short-term energy deficit
- Successful weight control
- Requires long-term behavior changes
- Successful weight loss
- Obesity is one of most challenging health problems
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